Southern Moderate African American Issues

Scriptures and Southern sayings

Scriptures and southern sayings do more for you than the government. The roles of the federal and state governments need to be reexamined during this non-election year. My idea is that the best life doesn’t depend on what governmental officials do and we need to hear some of them say that.

Free Milk and a Cow: The Georgia Satellites use this saying as the central theme in their hit “Keep Your Hands to Yourself.” Beyoncé sang something similar in “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It.)” Grandmothers once taught girls to hold “the cookie” hostage until a young gentleman (literally a gentle man) presented a long term, whole life package that included caring for future children. America will always provide a little temporary food assistance to needy families but the government is not now nor should it be your baby’s daddy for 18 years.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-15: Paul broke that thing down in this letter. “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

And if any man obeys not our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet, could him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Society wants to help the needy but how do we have young parents who are too cool to flip burgers and toss watermelons. But, you love your kids so much. Hogwash. We grew up with parents who had a job and a side job. Paul’s “Disorderly” would be current thugs but Democrats shouldn’t consider them as the enemy…just brothers who never learned the right way.

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime: You help those who help themselves. Unfortunately, we have a large number of half-raised people in this country. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal was surprised to discover the amount of money our state spends on corrections. I love calling the prison system “corrections” because that is what it is. If a fraction of that money could have been spent on better college, technical schools and K-12, we would need less funding for corrections and have fewer crime victims.

Know who you are and whose you are: Back in the day, our community had pride. You represented yourself, your family, your community, your race and your church in everything you did. In his first book, Secretary Colin Powell wrote that we need to bring the concept of shame back in America and I agree. If your kids are hungry but you won’t pick tomatoes as a job, you should be ashamed. If that same person plays Xbox all day, he should be ashamed. If you sell dope on the corner which poisons the community and creates a violent illegal commerce, shame on you.

Look, the American way should be an equal opportunity at success for everyone..a fair shot. If you blow off your shot with your actions (playing in school, disrespecting your family, being lazy), you are messing up an opportunity slaves and sharecroppers would have died to have.

They did die to have the right to vote but too many people in our community blow off voting. Wait a second..the same young people getting temporary assistance don’t vote. Amazing. The Trump Presidency is reality and his plan is simple: Reduce government assistance to needy people, they can do the work currently done by illegals…the work Americans won’t do.

Black Lives Matter: Okay, I always thought this movement should have been Black Lives Matter Also but what do I know. It’s not saying that other lives don’t matter..they do. As a southern moderate, I find the progressive movement to be a little aggressive with the whole “what government did and what corporate America did” thing. But, I was hyped to see a You Tube video say Black Lives should matter to Black people.

Yes, sir..there it is right there. Jesus said one of the two greatest commandments was love your neighbor as yourself but you don’t love yourself. If we took care of our community, the government would be secondary…”defend the borders and deliver the mail” is one more southern saying.